From: SASADA Koichi <ko1@...>
Date: 2011-06-20T11:18:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for place to stay 2 months sabbatical

s/sabbatical/research trip/ :)


(2011/06/20 10:50), SASADA Koichi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for foreign (*1) lab at university, research institute or
> private company who can accept me as a sabbatical for the two month (Aug
> to Sep).
> 
> *1: I hope US to attend RubyConf2011 :)
> 
> If you have troubles with Ruby interpreter, I'll work on that problem.
> If you have ideas for Ruby interpreter, it will be a good opportunity
> for us.
> If you don't have any complaint against Ruby, it will helps me (and
> maybe development of Ruby 1.9 series) if you accept me :)
> 
> 
> If your organization can accept me, please contact me <ko1@atdot.net>.
> 
> ----
> CV:
> 
> My name is Koichi Sasada, lecturer at Graduate school of Information
> Science and Technologies (IST), the University of Tokyo (*1).  I'm also
> a developer of scripting language Ruby (*2).  The latest version of Ruby
> (CRuby) 1.9 series employ new virtual machine (YARV) (*3) which I had
> developed.  We are continuing the development of VM to make it faster.
> 
> *1: IST - http://www.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index_e.shtml
> *2: Ruby - http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
> *3: YARV: yet another RubyVM: innovating the ruby interpreter
>     http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1094912
> 
> IST makes a "dispatch young researcher to foreign country" program to
> encourage international research.  Thanks to this program, I have an
> opportunity to visit another research institute in two months (Aug to
> Sep, this year).  This program (IST) pays me *all* of travel expenses
> (flight tickets, rent for apartment, and other living costs).
> 
> 
> Current our main research topic is Scripting language for parallel
> execution.  Many languages/interpreters support parallel threads
> (threads run in parallel).  However, we believe programming with
> parallel threads is very difficult.  Scripting language such as Ruby
> should more easy language.  Our goal of this research is make an "easy
> parallel scripting language".  One idea is Multi-VM (multiple VMs in one
> process run in parallel).
> 
> Another activity is development Ruby (CRuby).  There are many practical
> problems such as performance problems (speed, memory consumption) and bugs.
> 
> My CV in details: http://atdot.net/~ko1/activities/cv_sasada.pdf
> 
> ----
> 
> Regards,
> Koichi
> 


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// SASADA Koichi at atdot dot net